Teddy Roosevelt’s first National Waterfowl Refuge, the Lower Klamath NWR on the California-Oregon Border, has gone dry. So has its neighboring National Wildlife Refuge, Tule Lake. The issue is multi-faceted, a perfect storm of politics, crippling drought, and an unwillingness to compromise. The Importance of the Klamath Basin For a background of the basin and its importance as waterfowl habitat, I called the Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist...